About FaceSwapAI
Last Updated: 2026-05-04

What FaceSwapAI Is
FaceSwapAI (faceswapai.com) is a free consumer AI face-swap platform built for social-media creators, meme communities, and casual users curious about identity transformation. Since launch in 2023, the platform has processed over 10 million face-swap operations across 200+ specialized AI tools — from baby-prediction and aging filters to anime portrait generation and group-photo multi-face swaps.
FaceSwapAI is the consumer sister brand of DeepSwapAI, our professional/agency platform. We are independent of the unrelated deepswap.ai product. See /trust for full positioning.
Technology Stack
FaceSwapAI is engineered with a focus on inference speed, output fidelity, and operational reliability:
• Frontend: Next.js 15 (App Router, React 19), next-intl 4.3 for 11-language i18n, TailwindCSS 4. 13,500+ pages pre-rendered as static HTML for sub-100ms origin TTFB.
• Face Detection: 68-point HRNet landmark model with sub-pixel accuracy across pose variation, lighting changes, and occlusion. Multi-face support up to 50 simultaneous detections.
• Generation Pipeline: Proprietary GAN architecture for face-swap inference, trained on diverse demographics (no proprietary user-data — see Privacy section). Color-correction layer using LAB color space for skin-tone matching across source/target.
• Video Pipeline: Temporal coherence engine with independent motion-vector tracking per frame, eliminating inter-frame flicker that plagues simpler face-swap output. Up to 1080p output on free tier, supports MP4, MOV, AVI, WebM.
• Infrastructure: GPU clusters (NVIDIA A100/H100), Cloudflare CDN, BullMQ task queue with Redis 7, Prisma 6.19 ORM, PostgreSQL 15.
Privacy by Design
Privacy is not a feature; it is the architecture. FaceSwapAI is engineered to comply with GDPR Article 5 data minimization, California CCPA, and Illinois BIPA biometric privacy law:
• 24-hour auto-deletion: Every uploaded image and video is permanently purged within 24 hours of upload. There are no backups, archives, or mirrored copies retained beyond this window.
• No model training on user data: Your face is never used to train, fine-tune, or improve our AI models. We extract transient facial landmarks during processing only — these are not persistent biometric templates as defined by BIPA Section 14/10.
• TLS 1.3 in transit, AES-256 at rest: Every byte of user content is encrypted both during transfer and during the brief processing window before deletion.
• No tracking pixels in shared output: Your downloaded face-swap files contain no embedded identifiers traceable back to your account.
• C2PA Content Credentials: Every export is cryptographically signed per the C2PA 2.1 specification, enabling downstream platforms to verify provenance and AI-generation status. Required by EU AI Act Article 50 for distribution in the European Union.
Standards & Compliance
FaceSwapAI maintains active compliance with the following frameworks (effective dates listed):
• GDPR (EU 2016/679, effective 2018-05-25) — DPO contact via /privacy • CCPA (California, effective 2020-01-01) • BIPA (Illinois 740 ILCS 14, in force since 2008) • TAKE IT DOWN Act 2025 (U.S. federal, NCII removal SLA 48h) • EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689, deepfake disclosure under Article 50, in force 2026-08-02) • C2PA Content Credentials (cross-industry content provenance standard, Adobe + Microsoft + BBC + others) • NCMEC CyberTipline reporting on confirmed CSAM
Detailed compliance verification at /trust. Audit trail and DPO contact at /privacy.
Open Source We Build On
FaceSwapAI is grateful to the open-source community. Components we depend on:
• Next.js (Vercel, MIT License) — full-stack framework • next-intl (Yannick Lendrick, MIT License) — i18n with 11-locale support • React (Meta, MIT License) — UI library • TailwindCSS (Tailwind Labs, MIT License) — utility-first CSS • Prisma (Prisma Labs, Apache 2.0) — type-safe ORM • BullMQ (Manuel Lemos, MIT License) — Redis-backed task queue • HRNet (open research from Microsoft Research / Sun et al. 2019) — facial landmark detection inspiration • Schema.org vocabulary for structured data
We contribute back: bug reports, documentation patches, and ecosystem support where applicable.
Contact
We read every email. For:
• General support: [email protected] • Privacy / GDPR / CCPA / BIPA: [email protected] • Safety / NCII / minor concerns: [email protected] (24/7 monitoring; emergency requests prioritized) • Copyright / DMCA: [email protected] • Security disclosures (RFC 9116): [email protected] or /.well-known/security.txt • Business / partnerships: [email protected] • Legal / regulatory: [email protected]
Response SLA: General support 24h business hours. Safety reports 4h. Critical security 1h.
For enterprise / agency-tier face swap needs (4K output, 10-min videos, REST API at scale), see our sister platform at https://deepswapai.com.